Peter Keene

Optophone 2000

Peter Keene 2000

Technic mixed. Mechanical tv, camera and televisor, ribbon microphone and trumpet, theramin and electronics


The second attempt the idea was to use technologies that were available in the early to middle twenties the period in which Raoul Hausmann was elelaborating the concept of the optophone.Imagines formed on the 30 lines televisor from sounds picked up by the microphone and sounds produced by the theremin controlled by images from the 30 line camera.